>> does VFP 'know' to extend the space required if the codepage is set to chinese.

No. How could it possibly?

So a C-10 field can hold 5 double-byte characters before overflowing. The 240 character index limit becomes 120 assuming all characters are multibyte.

See: Kano, Nadine (1995), Developing International Software for Windows 95 and Windows NT, Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, ISBN 1-55615-840-8.


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